60 hours of coach specific training - classroom (5 days) and online

About this course

Our course is accredited by the Association for Coaching and has been running since 2010. We are proud to have a vibrant coaching community from our alumni and would love if you joined us.

Course overview:

•Origins
and history of coaching in sports, psychology and helpingprofessions

•The
development of coaching as a profession

•Differences
between coaching and other professions/disciplines

•Benefits
and the power of coaching

•Coaching
stories/ testimonials

•Attributes,
skills and characteristics of a good coach

•Communication skills and tools used in coaching

•Goal-setting
in coaching

•The
coaching process

•Contracting

•Live
coaching demos & observed coaching sessions

•What
will you do with your coaching?

•When
and how will you use coaching?

•Coaching
Accreditation. Ethics and Competencies (AC)

Threaded throughout the course is coaching in two parts:

1. You will have the opportunity to coach 1 delegate over the period of the course using the full coaching process as above, as well as others in the course and 1 external coaching experience.

2. You will also be coached as part of the course making this a truly transformational course, both in terms of skills and personal development.

Before you commit to our course, you may have lots of questions. You may be wondering if coaching is the right path for you, or whether our course will deliver what you need? We can help with these questions. We are always delighted to chat about the coaching in general and the course with you. We also have a bank of past delegates who would be happy to share their experience with you.

Welcome to the Accredited Award in Coach Training!

Orientation call

Pre course questionaire

Coaching Direct App!

Emotional intelligence - link to assessment

EQ assessment link & explanation of the model

Resource section

Course handbook

Session 1 tools/guides

Coaches tools - reflection & logs

Next steps

Evaluation

Accreditation overview

Steps to accreditation

Logs

Group supervision session

Online video modules

External Coaches

Internal coaches

Meet the expert

Kirsty McWilliam

Kirsty is a Leadership Coach based in Scotland. She is an experienced, accredited coach and coach trainer.
After being a Chartered Accountant for 15 years in both KPMG & PwC, Kirsty had the opportunity for coach training within PwC and has never looked back. Moving her passion from change in business to change in people, Coaching Direct was born in 2008.
To connect, and read more see Kirsty's Linkedin profile here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstymcwilliam/

A great toolbox delivered with so much enthusiasm, professionalism and humour. The course gave me the confidence to set up my own business with the support of a new community.